One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Apr 21, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_61b6b4ddc2f5420b · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Identity (basic) · Government ID
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all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Mar 8, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Mar 8, 2021
Reported by MAINE AG filing
Payne and Fears, LLP experienced an external system breach on March 8, 2021, which was also the date of discovery. The breach affected 234 individuals, compromising their names and Social Security numbers. The firm provided written notification to those affected on April 21, 2021, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.
Affected (this filing): 234
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.